Elon Moves X and Space X Out of California After Latest Gender Identity Bill

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk announced on Tuesday that he will be relocating the headquarters of SpaceX and X (formerly Twitter) from Democrat-run California to Republican-controlled Texas. This unexpected move comes in direct response to state Governor Gavin Newsom signing a bill prohibiting school districts from notifying parents when children change their preferred pronouns, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

“This is the final straw,” Musk wrote in a post to X. “Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas.”

In a follow-up post, he said “I did make it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children.”

A subsequent post also said that X, currently headquartered in San Francisco, would move to Austin, Texas, given that Musk has “had enough of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts just to get in and out of the building.”

AB1955, signed into law by Newsom on Monday, “would prohibit school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and the state special schools, and a member of the governing board or body of those educational entities, from enacting or enforcing any policy, rule, or administrative regulation that requires an employee or a contractor to disclose any information related to a pupil’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to any other person without the pupil’s consent unless otherwise required by law, as provided.”